You are a working single parent of a 16-year-old son and a 12-year-old daughter. Your son has an 11 PM curfew on weekends, but recently, he has been ignoring curfew and coming home after midnight. When you try to address this with him, he either ignores you or gets angry and starts screaming at you. When he’s at home, he tends to shut himself away in his room. His latest report card shows that his grades are slipping. You are getting very concerned, but you work full-time and parent by yourself, so you are getting frustrated as well. 

After reviewing the learning resources for this week, come up with a strategy for dealing with your son that is supported by the literature on adolescent discipline. What are some of the things that you need to take into consideration? What actions would you implement to try and address his behavior? What actions would you avoid?

Discussion: Attention

You need the ability to shift the focus of your attention from one object to another, depending on the situation. There are early-selection and late-selection models to propose what might draw your attention to a particular target and research has identified several brain areas that are involved in shifting attention. These processes of maintaining and shifting attention are important in your daily life, such as when driving, and they have clinical implications. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered a disorder that impacts the ability to maintain or shift attention. Some consider ADHD both an overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed neurodevelopmental condition. Diagnosis can be challenging, but it is thought to affect about 7% of children and adolescents worldwide and about 11% of the population in the United States. Understanding attention and the biological basis of how to shift or maintain that attention may be the first step to treating the underlying cause of this disease.

Related to attention is the idea of consciousness. These terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but they can mean very different things. In the broader sense, consciousness is that emergent property that is fundamental to human existence and potentially separates us from other living things. Researchers have struggled to define and study consciousness, generally breaking it down into easy problems, which can probably be addressed with current research techniques, and hard problems, which are the “how” and “why” questions that cannot be addressed in an obvious way by today’s techniques.

For this Discussion, you will summarize the different models of attention and the brain areas involved. You will consider ADHD and the common pharmaceutical treatment. Finally, you will describe consciousness and the how researchers define the easy and hard problems of consciousness.

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To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the models and types of attention and the regions of the brain involved in attention and shifts of attention. As you read about attention, consider the efficacy of multitasking. Finally, be sure you can differentiate between the easy and hard problems of consciousness.

Post a response to the following:

• Describe the early-selection and late-selection models of attention.
• Describe the brain areas involved in attention.
  • Differentiate between the areas involved in voluntarily shifting attention and those involved in reflexive shifts of attention.
• Describe ADHD and explain a pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatment for the condition. Include an assessment of the effectiveness of each treatment.
• Define consciousness and differentiate between the easy and hard problems of consciousness.

Required Readings

References

Breedlove, S. M., & Watson, N. V. (2019). Behavioral neuroscience (9th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

• Chapter 18, “Attention and Higher Cognition”

https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0301051116303143?via%3Dihub

https://web-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=510c649d-5610-459b-9d28-fd874c599503%40sessionmgr4008&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl

https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/pmc/articles/PMC3960698/

https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/pmc/articles/PMC5641373/

https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0165032718305470?via%3DihubDiscussion: Attention

You need the ability to
shift the focus of your attention from one object to another, depending on the
situation. There are early-selection and late-selection models to propose what
might draw your attention to a particular target and research has identified
several brain areas that are involved in shifting attention. These processes of
maintaining and shifting attention are important in your daily life, such as
when driving, and they have clinical implications. Attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is considered a disorder that impacts the ability
to maintain or shift attention. Some consider ADHD both an overdiagnosed and
underdiagnosed neurodevelopmental condition. Diagnosis can be challenging, but
it is thought to affect about 7% of children and adolescents worldwide and
about 11% of the population in the United States. Understanding attention and
the biological basis of how to shift or maintain that attention may be the
first step to treating the underlying cause of this disease.
Related to attention is
the idea of consciousness. These terms are sometimes used
interchangeably, but they can mean very different things. In the broader sense,
consciousness is that emergent property that is fundamental to human existence
and potentially separates us from other living things. Researchers have
struggled to define and study consciousness, generally breaking it down into
easy problems, which can probably be addressed with current research
techniques, and hard problems, which are the “how” and “why” questions that
cannot be addressed in an obvious way by today’s techniques.
For this Discussion, you
will summarize the different models of attention and the brain areas involved.
You will consider ADHD and the common pharmaceutical treatment. Finally, you
will describe consciousness and the how researchers define the easy and hard
problems of consciousness.
.
To prepare:
·
Review this week’s
Learning Resources, focusing on the models and types of attention and the
regions of the brain involved in attention and shifts of attention. As you read
about attention, consider the efficacy of multitasking. Finally, be sure you
can differentiate between the easy and hard problems of consciousness.
Post a response to the following:
·
Describe the
early-selection and late-selection models of attention.
·
Describe the brain areas
involved in attention.
o
Differentiate between the areas involved in voluntarily shifting
attention and those involved in reflexive shifts of attention.
·
Describe ADHD and
explain a pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatment for the condition.
Include an assessment of the effectiveness of each treatment.
·
Define consciousness and
differentiate between the easy and hard problems of consciousness.
Required Readings
References
Breedlove, S. M.,
& Watson, N. V. (2019). Behavioral neuroscience (9th ed.).
New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
·
Chapter 18, “Attention
and Higher Cognition”
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0301051116303143?via%3Dihub
https://web-a-ebscohost-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org…
https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/pmc/articles/PMC3960698/
https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/pmc/articles/PMC5641373/
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0165032718305470?via%3Dihub

Processes for Leadership Development

Some strategic practices for leadership development range from mentoring initiatives to action learning, from 360 feedback initiatives to virtual learning communities. Also some organizations use tuition reimbursement for advanced degrees related to one’s leadership or job.

From the above strategic practices, select one you would like to discuss further. Using two primary sources, critically analyze the approach and provide some guidelines and specifics for a leadership development approach that you think would be helpful in a group or organization of your choice. If you would like, you could consider your own self-leadership in this question. Which strategic practice would you like to engage in to help develop your own self-leadership within your organization or in a group of leaders in your field?

Medication alone is not as successful in treating anxiety disorders
as psychotherapy in combination with medication. Conduct current and
scholarly research about why this is the case.

Write a
1,200-1,500-word essay about your findings on why medication alone is
not as effective as psychotherapy in combination with medication for
treating anxiety disorders. Provide specific statistics to back up these
claims.

Include at least five scholarly references in addition to the textbook in your paper.

Dziegielewski, S. F. (2014). DSM-5 in
Action. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

1) Is Intelligence Real? (Links to an external site.)

2) Animal Intelligence  (Links to an external site.)

3) What does it mean to be Smart? (Links to an external site.)

4) How to measure IQ (Links to an external site.)

5) Finally – the Flynn Hypothesis! (Links to an external site.) 

Is there a common theme that goes through these 5 videos?

Can you FIND SOMETHING in each video that relates to the chapter – I don’t need a long paragraph or a long description of the video… just a bulleted list of how EACH relates to the chapter 7 and 8